financially supported by the Joint Fund of Coal, set up by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shenhua Co., Ltd.(U1261104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21276041);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-12-0079);the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (2015020200);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT15LK41);the Science and Technology Development Program of Hangzhou (20130533B14)~~
An immature pinecone shaped hierarchically structured zirconia (ZrO2-ipch) and a cobblestone-like zirconia nanoparticulate (ZrO2-cs), both with the monoclinic phase (m-phase), were synthesized by the facile hydr...